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The Graphic Gregor Samsa: Can Kafka's Creature Be Brought To Life?, Samantha J. Sacks
The Graphic Gregor Samsa: Can Kafka's Creature Be Brought To Life?, Samantha J. Sacks
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
The User Is Dead, Long Live The User: Creation Through Consumption In The Context Of The Reader And The User, Anna Wheeler
The User Is Dead, Long Live The User: Creation Through Consumption In The Context Of The Reader And The User, Anna Wheeler
Senior Projects Spring 2016
In her essay "Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?" Hito Steyerl claims that “the internet is not dead. It is undead and it's everywhere."
In his essay "The Death of the Author" Roland Barthes writes: "It is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the Reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author."
The figure of the reader and the figure of the user have, at different times, been placed on the consumer side of a consumer-producer opposition. The term "user" was coined by developers to describe a certain type of consumer-- one that …